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ID #21698088
State Massachusetts
City Boston
Job type Contract
Salary USD $55 - $60 55 - 60
Source SPECTRAFORCE TECHNOLOGIES Inc.
Showed 2021-10-25
Date 2021-10-12
Deadline 2021-12-10
Category Business/mgmt
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Business Systems Analyst

Massachusetts, Boston, 02108 Boston USA

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Business Systems Analyst

Boston, MA / Merrimack, NH or Smithfield, RI (Initially remote till pandemic)

6+ Months – W2 Only

MUST HAVE SKILLS:
  • Asset/Investment Management or Capital Markets experienced candidates.
  • Someone who is interested in the business and is comfortable communicating and working with a wide range of individuals – portfolio managers, technologists, quant analysts, etc.
  • Soft skills are key. If candidate shows a willingness to learn and embrace new things, they are ok with getting the candidate up to speed.

NICE TO HAVE SKILLS:
  • Any previous experience with Portfolio Management, Capital Markets type of experience would be ideal.

The Expertise You Have
  • Lead the requirements gathering of new features and/or enhancements for our portfolio construction platform.
  • Collaborate with the technology and business teams to deliver high quality solutions for business problems.
  • Bring curiosity and a questioning mind-set to work, asking always about the “why” and the “value” of new features/enhancements to the platform.
  • Contribute to improving systems analysis/product owner practices across a distributed team.
  • Mentoring junior systems analysts when opportunities arise
  • Collaborating and actively engaging with all team members

The Skills You Bring
  • Bachelor's degree (or above) in either Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Business Information Systems, Mathematics or Finance related field
  • Experience as systems analyst, delivering software using agile development practices
  • Strong analysis skills, with a consistent track record of delivery of sophisticated technology projects
  • Good interpersonal, relationship management and facilitation skills. You are a strong contributor with a collaborative work style
  • Ability to establish and maintain positive relationships with business partners and technology
  • Comfortable with having trade off conversations with business partners
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with business and technical team members across the organization
  • Experience in defining clear and concise requirements for and providing support for portfolio management, trading and/or research applications
  • Experience with Oracle/SQL and other languages desirable (e.g. Java, R). Willingness to read/analyze code for analysis purposes
  • Ability to understand the technology and software architecture of an application
  • Experience with coordinating and running User Acceptance Testing (UAT) sessions, along with developing and managing content to support end-user training.
  • Experience in financial services industry is vital. Managed Accounts/Wealth Management expertise from a business and/or technology perspective is a plus

Other Pointers:
  • This is not necessarily an all-inclusive list of job-related responsibilities, duties, skills, efforts, requirements or working conditions. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, SPECTRAFORCE and the assigned client reserve the right to revise the job or to require that other or different tasks be performed as assigned.
  • Benefits: SPECTRAFORCE offers ACA compliant health benefits as well as dental, vision, accident, and hospital indemnity insurances. Additional benefits SPECTRAFORCE offers to the eligible employees include commuter benefits, 401K plan with matching and a referral bonus program. SPECTRAFORCE offers unpaid leave as well as paid sick leave when required by law.
  • Equal Opportunity Employer: SPECTRAFORCE is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Please contact Human Resources at NAhr@spectraforce.com if you require a reasonable accommodation

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